On 13 Sep, 10:42, DSt <dste...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm building a website for a friend

You can't afford the time to build a CMS when you can download them
ready-made so easily.

So look at setting up some sort of pre-built blog engine for them
(possibly a catalogue-based shop, if they really need it) and do
customisation work onto it, rather than building a static site from
scratch. If you take a sophisticated publishing engine and switch off
features you don't need, then you can use it as a simple CMS. The main
feature to look at is navigation - some blog engines are a bit too
focussed on date-based navigation, you need something that responds to
annotational "tags" and generates a structural nav tree too.

Otherwise, if they need an "information publishing" site, you might
even consider installing a wiki for them.